How Did Ancient Artists Create Perfectly Symmetrical Faces?

Imagine you're drawing a face on a stone, it's not easy to make both sides look the same. Ancient artists used something like a special tool that helped them draw both halves of a face at once, so everything stayed balanced. It’s like using two hands at the same time to draw one picture.

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  1. An artist uses two hands at once to draw both sides of a face on stone.
  2. A child draws a symmetrical smile by using a ruler across the middle of their paper.
  3. A baker divides a cake into two equal parts using a knife.

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